5 Things You Need to Know Today: Feb. 8

Today we've included a weather update, gas prices and some suggestions on how to spend your day.

1. The weather

The National Weather Service predicts today will be partly sunny, with a high near 34 degrees. Wednesday night will be partly cloudy, with a low around 23 degrees.

2. Weed Warriors

Share your strategies, successes, or problems with garlic mustard, autumn olive, and others, and learn about imminent invaders such as Japanese hedge parsley and narrowleaf bittercress. The event will take place at 6:45 p.m. at Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 800 N. Dixboro Rd. in Ann Arbor.

3. Colon Cancer Walk kick-off meeting

Learn more about the American Cancer Society's second annual event, "Feet and Friends Fighting Colon Cancer," an 8K and 5K run/walk that will take place on April 21 at in Dexter. The meeting takes place at the Ann Arbor Acura dealership, 540 Auto Mall Drive.

4. Gas prices

MichiganGasPrices.com reports the following gasoline prices in the Dexter area as of Tuesday night:

• $3.38 a gallon (regular), $3.79 (diesel), BP, 200 Baker Rd.
• $3.39 a gallon (regular), $3.79 (diesel), , 195 Baker Rd.
• $3.39 a gallon (regular), $3.79 (diesel), , 750 Baker Rd.
• $3.39 a gallon (regular), , 8135 Main St.
• $3.39 a gallon (regular), Mobil, 7177 Dexter-Ann Arbor Rd.

5. This day in history

Feb. 8, 1587: After 19 years of imprisonment, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England for her complicity in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I, according to History.com.